Steve Jobs Perfected Hidden Parts

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs pushed design simplicity so far that he wanted Apple computers to look polished inside as well as outside. His taste drew from Japanese Zen Buddhism, Bauhaus minimalism, and a belief in “deep simplicity,” where designers had to understand every part of a product before removing anything unnecessary. That obsession later shaped the translucent iMac, which made Apple’s internal engineering visible and turned the machine’s hidden order into part of its design.

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